 | Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 pages
...of the maxim now before us, for " when a less estate and a greater estate, limited subsequent to it, coincide and meet in one and the same person without...the less is immediately annihilated ; or in the law phraseology is said to be merged, that is, silnk or drowned in the greater ; or to express the same... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1876 - 770 pages
...; and this leads us to consider a little more fully the doctrine of merger. Blackstone says that, " whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...is immediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, it is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater." Com., Book II, p. 177. Commenting... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 pages
...pass. Before concluding the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may he proper to observe that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated; merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus if there be tenant for years, and the reversion... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - 1877 - 1150 pages
...177.) 5°. Merger of the particular Estate ; WC lf. The Nature of Merger. Merger is described to be whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...and the same person without any intermediate estate; whereby the less is immediately annihilated, or is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the... | |
 | Robert Freke Gould - 1879 - 104 pages
...occur tmder the old legal maxim, " Опте continet in se *mnw/'(') as illustrated by the rule, that " whenever a greater estate and a less, coincide and meet in one and the same person or body, the less is immediately aunihilated ; or, in the law phrase, ia said to be merged, that is,... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - 1880 - 650 pages
...living. Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...immediately annihilated ; or in the law phrase is said to be Merger of less wer^erf, that is, sunk or drowned, in the greater. Thus, if there be tenant for years,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1880 - 1036 pages
...Merger is described as the annihilation of one estate in " a s' another. It takes place ususually when a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...the same person, without any intermediate estate, whereby the less is immediately merged — that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. To this result,... | |
 | 1917 - 1038 pages
...held by the stockholders. The merger of estates is said to occur when a greater estate and a lesser coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate existing in another. 2 Blackstone, Com. 177 (Cooley's Ed.); volume 5, Words and Phrases, First Series,... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1880 - 582 pages
...16 111. 122; Lambert on Dower 23; 15 Johns. 458.) Where a greater and less estate coincide and melt in one and the same person without any intermediate estate, the less is merged, that is, sunk. Hence we say that dower and an estate in fee cannot descend and vest in the... | |
 | 1917 - 2042 pages
...held by the stockholders. The merger of estates is said to occur when a greater estate and a lesser coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate existing in another. 2 Blackstone, Com. 177 (Cooley's Ed.) ; volume 5, Words and Phrases, First Series,... | |
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Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that f whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate/ the less is immediately annihilated;!... 
